Current Events > stars and stripes was the most bullshit thing in all of my hero academia

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I don't know what that is

MHA catapulted off a fucking cliff.

at least she could've depowered him somewhat

Did everyone just miss the part about her final order to herself allowing her power to wreck shit inside of the bad guy and destroy like half of his quirks? Without a doubt everyone would have died if she didn't do that.

Seems to me like better writing would have not given Shigaraki that many quirks to begin with, or have an established character wipe half of them out somehow so their sacrifice would have at least some emotional resonance with the reader.

A previous arc established a serum that eliminates a quirk from the user, why not have someone the readers already know get close enough to inject him with it before getting overpowered and killed?

Did everyone just miss the part about her final order to herself allowing her power to wreck shit inside of the bad guy and destroy like half of his quirks? Without a doubt everyone would have died if she didn't do that.

Did everyone just miss the part about her final order to herself allowing her power to wreck shit inside of the bad guy and destroy like half of his quirks? Without a doubt everyone would have died if she didn't do that.

Oh, I'm not going to claim the final villain didn't get a bullshit parade of power-ups, but people either sped through these chapters or flat out didn't read them if they're saying that she did nothing other than make him look strong.

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Did everyone just miss the part about her final order to herself allowing her power to wreck shit inside of the bad guy and destroy like half of his quirks? Without a doubt everyone would have died if she didn't do that.

Looking at this list, the only specific quirk that Shigaraki lost as a consequence of the fight was Reflect, which made its debut in that exact same fight. He still had literally everything else that made him a huge threat both before and after the fight, so the Stars and Stripes chapters were ultimately just filler so somebody strong could job to the villain without having to kill off anyone in the actual cast.

This is a bit of a massive pet peeve of mine in certain fiction. If a writer is too scared to kill off at least some of the cast to show how the stakes are (especially since it's not a Western comic book story, it's a manga with a single shot to the end), the writer should've at least took a chance and used someone who was established to provide a big punch to the audience at the villain is not messing around.

such a waste of a character

but well MHA is bad at handling female characters in general

That's a Shonen manga/anime problem.

plenty of shonen dont do this

fairy tail is a big example

dandadan is another

one piece has plenty of female characters who kick ass

MHA has great female characters: Urahara, Toga, Tsuyu, electric girl who loves to ask people stuff who's name is on the tip of my tongue, Momo (this one needed just a bit more action scenes) and Lady Nagant for me.

Edit: Straight up forgot Mirko who's a super baddass.

mirko is the only female character to actually kick any kind of ass

I stelrongly disagree and even then, how the character does in combat is not the only thing of merit when it comes to character writing.

MHA has great female characters: Urahara, Toga, Tsuyu, electric girl who loves to ask people stuff who's name is on the tip of my tongue, Momo (this one needed just a bit more action scenes) and Lady Nagant for me.

Edit: Straight up forgot Mirko who's a super baddass.

genuinely not sure who you mean by electric girl

Tsuyu kinda just blends into the background (more of an overall MHA 1-A cast bloat issue), genuinely not sure who you mean by electric girl, and yeah I'll give you the rest even if I'm not the biggest fan of how Nagant was written but that's more that whole arc being disappointing, the fight itself was great tho

I stopped after the gentle criminal arc. I hated that guy. I thought the big baddie before that, I think his name was overhaul, was kinda over the top. He like destroyed everything he touched and then reconstructed it to turn himself into a monster.

the problem i have with the final arc is how they just keep making the villains pull wins out of their ass. Everytime the heroes look like they are winning, All For One or Shigiraki does some "nah I win" bullshit to keep the battle going. Its annoying. I have only seen the anime so I don't know the final ending. But I bet the last season will be just like the previous one in that regard. But at least I know eventually the asspulls will stop since the arc eventually wraps up

oh but the series did kill of a named character when it fridged midnight

Jujutsu Kaisen did this exact same thing and it got ridiculously boring. For both series, I couldn't even bring myself to care at the end, because I was so tired of the fights and just wanted them to be fucking over with.

I wouldn't say she was fridged.

He needed to show that war has consequences on both sides and she was the most insignificant character to kill without tilting the kids away from the Heroes never kill mindset.

I mean they did the same thing with All Might's former sidekick.

Yeah, you can't really call it fridging every time a female character gets killed, otherwise you risk diluting the meaning of the term.